Being like The Sex Pistols can help your startup?

http://blog.smartupz.com/2010/03/being-like-sex-pistols-can-help-your.html

by JarekS • 16 years ago

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RyanMcGreal2• 16 years ago

Lesson 1: it's more important for your bass player to be outrageous than skillful.

JarekS4• 16 years ago

Well... the names like Sid Vicious or Johnny Rotten say a lot... ;)

pawartur• 16 years ago

I like the idea a lot... And I think we can draw some interesting parallels to other kinds of artistic activities. Let's see... My mother's a scupltress. Anybody :)?

RyanMcGreal2• 16 years ago

I bet a sufficiently motivated essayist could draw comparisons between, say, hacking and painting.

parenthesis• 16 years ago

Arguably, Malcolm McLaren was the entrepreneur in the Sex Pistols story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_McLaren#The_Sex_Pistols

JarekS4• 16 years ago

Wasn't he more like a VC or Angel Investor?

bravura• 16 years ago

No, Malcolm was the mastermind. He saw the punk trend, was a fixture in the scene, and figured out the right positioning for a new group and drove his product into the appropriate market channel. He wasn't the public face of what he built, but he put the Sex Pistols together and made them tour and got his wife Vivienne Westwood to style them.

kingkongreveng_• 16 years ago

Sex Pistols were a boy band. A marketing creation.

pstuart• 16 years ago

Bah.

"Never Mind the Bollocks" still sounds good to this day.

relwell2• 16 years ago

I had too much to say in response to this, so I just wrote it in a blog post.

http://robertelwell.blogspot.com/2010/03/please-kill-me-how-...

pedalpete• 16 years ago

I think your rebuttal is missing a very important point. Though you may not agree that The Sex Pistols were the best product, there is little doubt that they were the brand that is heavily associated with the genre.

In another start-up comparison, The Sex Pistols weren't the best technical solution, but they got users.

relwell2• 16 years ago

Users don't matter if the product breaks and never gets fixed.

JarekS4• 16 years ago

Great post!

lucifer• 16 years ago

Sex Pistols rebuttal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhlx0-LLDE0

pavelludiq• 16 years ago

Obviously a very content free article. As a proud punk, i call it bullshit. Although hacker culture is a lot like punk culture. But thats true of almost any creative subculture filled with misfits with attitude problems.

Being like The Sex Pistols can help your startup?

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